This document contains over 60 quotes from Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, the spiritual master of Srila Prabhupada, on various topics related to devotional service, the spiritual master, chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra, and serving Krishna. The quotes emphasize the importance of associating with devotees, chanting the holy name, serving Krishna and the spiritual master, and avoiding material attachments.

1. Quotes by
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura
(spiritual master of Srila Prabhupada)

2. Vedic Wisdom
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s
instructions in Sikastakam,
“param vijayate Sri-Krishna -
Sankirtanam” is the only motto
of the Vaisnavas.

3. Vedic Wisdom
The Supreme Personality of
Godhead Sri Krishna is the only
enjoyer. Everyone and
everything else is the object of
his enjoyment.

4. Vedic Wisdom
Anyone who does not serve
Hari, the Supreme Personality
of Godhead, is ignorant and a
killer himself.

5. Vedic Wisdom
To learn to tolerate is one of
the most important
responsibilities of those living
in the math.

6. Vedic Wisdom
Rupanuga devotees offer all
glory to the original source
instead of depending on their
own strength.

7. Vedic Wisdom
Those who perform assorted
religious activities can not
serve the Supreme Personality
of Godhead.

8. Vedic Wisdom
Become united with one
purpose and serve Hari.

9. Vedic Wisdom
Where there is discussion
about Hari, that is a place of
pilgrimage.

10. Vedic Wisdom
We are not pious, sinful or learned
or ignorant, we are the carriers of
the dust of the feet of the Supreme
Lord Sri Hari and we are initiated by
the mantra “kirtaniyah sada harih”.

11. Vedic Wisdom
My advice is, do not criticize
others. Try to rectify yourself.

12. Vedic Wisdom
Our supreme duty is to serve
the residents of Vraja who are
afflicated by Krishna's
departure to Mathura.

13. Vedic Wisdom
A pure devotee knows that
everyone is the spiritual
master. Therefore, a pure
devotee can be jagad-guru.

14. Vedic Wisdom
If we want to follow the path
of true auspiciousness, we
should give up the countless
opinions of people and only
hear the words of the vedas.

15. Vedic Wisdom
Whatever is auspicious should
be desired.

16. Vedic Wisdom
An intimate devotee does not
have any other desire besides
serving the followers of Sri
Rupa Goswami.

17. Vedic Wisdom
There is no other way of
associating with
transcendence besides
hearing.

18. Vedic Wisdom
As soon as we lose the shelter of a
protector, everything around us will
become our enemy and attack us.
Topics about Krishna spoken by a
genuine saint are our only
protector.

19. Vedic Wisdom
A flatterer can never become a
guru or a preacher.

20. Vedic Wisdom
It is better to remain in millions of
species like birds, beasts, insects
and worms than become deceitful.
One who is free from deceit
receives auspiciousness.

21. Vedic Wisdom
Vaisnavism is the other name of
simplicity. The servants of the
paramahamsa Vaishnavas are
simple; therefaore they are the best
brahmanas.

22. Vedic Wisdom
The only duty of the most merciful
persons is to transform the
degraded taste of people. If you
can save even one person from the
great force of MahaMaya, then that
will be a greater act of philanthropy
than opening millions of hospitals.

23. Vedic Wisdom
Those who have not learned to
develop their propensity to serve
the Supreme Lord from self
realized souls, no matter how
pleasing their association may be, it
should never be desired.

24. Vedic Wisdom
Preaching without practicing is
nothing but a ritual of karma-
kanda.

25. Vedic Wisdom
If one just serves the Supreme
Personality of Godhead and his
devotees, his attachment to
his household will diminish.

26. Vedic Wisdom
Our main disease is to collect
objects that are not related to
Krishna.

27. Vedic Wisdom
We have not come to this world to
become an artisan of wood or
stone, we are only peons of Sri
Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s mercy.

28. Vedic Wisdom
We will not stay in this world for a
long time. Only if this body falls
singing of the glory of Lord Sri Hari
will our birth in this body be
successful.

29. Vedic Wisdom
The only desired object in our life is
to collect the dust from the Lotus
feet of Sri Rupa Goswami, who
fulfilled the desire of Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu.

30. Vedic Wisdom
This material nature, which is
averse to the Supreme Personality
of Godhead, is an examination hall.
Tolerance, humbleness,
appreciation of others, etc., are
favorable to develop our devotion
to Hari.

31. Vedic Wisdom
In every birth one gets a father
and a mother. But one may not
get instructions for his ultimate
benefit.

32. Vedic Wisdom
Although the activities of a devotee
and the misdemeanor of a pseudo-
devotee appear to be alike, there is
a heaven and hell difference – like
milk and limewater.

33. Vedic Wisdom
Those who mistake dishonesty to
be honesty (or a crook to be saint)
will fall into great difficulty, as a
person who tries to cheat an iron-
smith by supplying him bad steel.

34. Vedic Wisdom
As soon as we get to know the
absolute truth, we should become
fixed in it. Instead of wasting a
single moment of time left, we
should be engaged in serving Sri
Hari.

35. Vedic Wisdom
Many people mistake ‘imitation’ to
be ‘following’. These two words are
not the same. To play the role of
Narada in a play is ‘imitation’ but to
follow the path of devotion
according to Narada Muni is
‘following’.

36. Vedic Wisdom
He who is constantly absorbed in
discussing about Sri Hari is a saint.
One who is constantly engaged in
serving the Supreme Personality of
Godhead is a saint. One who in all
his endeavors tries to serve Krishna
is a saint.

37. Vedic Wisdom
If the Supreme Personality of
Godhead Narayana offers
Himself, something remains
unoffered, but a devotee can
offer the Lord completely.

38. Vedic Wisdom
Do not try to become a guru to
become envious. Do not try to
become a guru in order to become
absorbed in material attachments.
But if you become my unalloyed
servant, if you have acquired my
potency, there is nothing to fear.

39. Vedic Wisdom
A bonafide spiritual master is non-
different from Supreme Personality
of Godhead. If one can not say that
the spiritual master is the personal
manifestation of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, one will
not be able to utter the holy name
of the Lord.

40. Vedic Wisdom
In order to teach us how to
serve Him, the Supreme
Personality of Godhead
Himself appears as the spiritual
master.

41. Vedic Wisdom
Being cheated by those who
mislead people in the name of
hari-katha has become a sort
of religion in this age.

42. Vedic Wisdom
Someone will be able to
understand the profound meaning
of the impartial truth that is being
spoken fearlessly after hundreds of
lives or hundreds of yugas. Unless
hundreds of gallons of hard-earned
blood is spent, we will not be able
to make people understand the
truth.

43. Vedic Wisdom
The Lord does not accept
anything offered by those who
do not chant one hundred
thousand names of the Lord
each day.

44. Vedic Wisdom
Association is the principle impetus
in human life to serve Sri Hari. Due
to association of non-devotees, one
gets material prosperity. Due to the
association of devotees, the spirit
soul gradually becomes absorbed in
serving Sri Hari. This is the greatest
shelter for a human being. Never
become averse to that.

45. Vedic Wisdom
Whenever there are material
difficulties, the Supreme
Personality of Godhead
becomes the shelter and
allows one to serve Him.

46. Vedic Wisdom
As long as one has anarthas, one
does not receive the good fortune
of becoming a servant of Srimati
Radharani. Those who discuss the
transcendental pastimes of Srimati
Radharani, the dearmost servitor of
Sri Krishna, are sense gratifiers,
covered enjoyers and prakrta-
sahajiyas.

47. Vedic Wisdom
When anarthas will be removed
due to chanting the Holy Name,
then Krishna's form, qualities and
pastimes will automatically
manifest from the name. There is
no need to make an endeavor to
artificially remember His form,
qualities and pastimes.

48. Vedic Wisdom
All of you preach the message of
Rupa Goswami and Raghunatha
Dasa Goswami with great
enthusiasm. Our supreme desire is
to become the dust at the lotus
feet of the followers of Sri Rupa
Goswami.

49. Vedic Wisdom
Do not give up devotional service even if
there are innumerable dangers, countless
insults and endless harassment. Do not
become disheartened that most people
in this world do not accept the message
of unalloyed devotional service. Never
give up your devotional service and
hearing and chanting about Krishna
which is your everything. Always chant
the Holy Name becoming more humble
than a blade of grass and more tolerant
than a tree.

50. Vedic Wisdom
We do not want to become
great fruitive workers or
religious leaders; all we want is
to become the dust at the
lotus feet of Sri Rupa Prabhu.
That is our original identity.

51. Vedic Wisdom
A living entity can not derive
real benefit by reading
hundreds of books or
pretending to render
devotional service according to
his own ideas.

52. Vedic Wisdom
We should never display any kind of
aversion towards sankirtana-yajna which
is perfect sacrifice, complete with the
seven forms of sacrifice. If we have
gradually increasing love for that, then
everything will be accomplished and we
will attain ultimate perfection. Just
preach the words of Rupa and
Raghunatha with enthusiasm and
courage, with complete dedication to the
followers of Sri Rupa.

53. Vedic Wisdom
If I stop preaching the unbiased
truth due to fear that people will
not like it, I am accepting the non-
vedic way, rejecting the vedic way.
Then I become an atheist and I lose
my faith in the Supreme Personality
of Godhead, who is the
personification of truth.

54. Vedic Wisdom
In this material world there are only
two representatives of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead;
the transcendental sound vibration
of the Holy Name, and his eternally
transcendental deity incarnation.

55. Vedic Wisdom
The deity is worshipped by the
Holy Name – sentient is served
through sentient.

56. Vedic Wisdom
For the pleasure of the Lord,
His devotees call Him by His
Holy Name to render service
unto Him, not to fulfill their
own desires.

57. Vedic Wisdom
The deity is the merciful incarnation
of the eternal form of the
transcendental Supreme
Personality of Godhead of the
spiritual sky (Vaikuntha). It is direct
proof of the personal form of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Vaishnavas do not imagine whether
God is a person or impersonal. They
are not idol worshippers.

58. Vedic Wisdom
Just as the purports of the vedas
have been briefly described in the
Brahma-sutra and the vedanta-
bhasya, the conclusion and purport
of the Srimad-Bhagavatam has
been similarly described in a brief
and accurate way.

59. Vedic Wisdom
Unless one studies Srimad-
Bhagavatam under the guidance of
a bonafide Vaishnava acharya, he
will not be able to understand the
real purport of the Brahma-sutra.
Srimad Bhagavatam is the original
commentary of Vedanta-sutra.

60. Vedic Wisdom
Sri Jiva Goswami specifically
explained that Srimad-
Bhagavatam is the original
commentary of Vedanta sutra.

61. Vedic Wisdom
The word “devotion” can not be
applied to anything besides
‘Krishna’. ‘Krishna’ is the only
subject of devotion. Brahman is the
object of knowledge, Paramatma is
the object of nearness, but Krishna
is the only object of service.

62. Vedic Wisdom
Every word has a two-fold aspect;
conveying a meaning based on
knowledge and a meaning based
on ignorance. The aspects of words
that indicate something other than
Krishna, Visnu or Sri Caitanya,
conveys the meaning based on
ignorance. In knowledge
everything indicates Krishna and
signifies Krishna.

63. Vedic Wisdom
What the ignorant masses
understand about the ‘Krishna’ is
not the real object of the word
Krishna. In other words, ‘God’,
‘Allah’ and even the Sanskrit words
‘Isvara’, ‘Paramatma’ etc only
indicate a great energy coming out
of Krishna. They do not indicate the
total aspect of the word ‘Krishna’.

64. Vedic Wisdom
There is no work as auspicious as serving
the spiritual master. Of all worship, the
worship of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead is the greatest. But the worship
of the lotus feet of the spiritual master is
even greater than the worship of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead. Unless
this is firmly realized we can not
understand what saintly association
means; we can not understand what the
shelter of a spiritual master means; we
can not understand that we are
dependent and he is our maintainer.

65. Vedic Wisdom
If we take shelter of the lotus feet
of the spiritual master, we can
become free from illusion, fear and
distress. If we wholeheartedly beg
for his mercy without any deceit
then the spiritual master bestows
all auspiciousness upon us.

66. Hare Krishna !